164 results for “din”
Clear filterBy Imam at-Tirmidhi. Notable for grading each hadith and mentioning scholarly differences.
By Jalal ad-Din al-Mahalli & Jalal ad-Din as-Suyuti. A concise and widely s...
By Imam al-Ghazali. A monumental work covering worship, daily life, vices, and virtues. Al-Ghazali's masterpiece integrating fiqh, theology, and spiritual purif
...dith collections (Kutub as-Sittah). Known for its strict grading criteria, an-Nasa'i's conditions for accepting narrators a...
...ematically compile hadith alongside the legal practice of Madinah. Imam Malik spent over 40 years refining this work, which...
...hadith compilations, containing over 38,000 narrations including hadith of the Prophet, statements of the Companions, and r...
...oting their grades and the opinions of hadith scholars regarding their authenticity. One of the most widely taught texts in...
.... An expanded revision of al-Baghawi's Masabih as-Sunnah, adding source attributions, grading, and over 1,500 additional ha...
...Dhahabi noted that al-Hakim was sometimes lenient in his grading, the work remains an important supplementary source to the...
By Muhammad Nasir ad-Din al-Albani. A modern hadith authentication project by the 20...
...opedic works of legal tafsir. It covers grammar, variant readings, occasions of revelation, and abrogation alongside detail...
By Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi. Known as 'The Great Tafsir' (at-Tafsir al-Kabir), ...
...ocused on sound narrations and clear explanations while avoiding fabricated reports. Ibn Taymiyyah praised it as being bett...
By Jalal ad-Din as-Suyuti. A massive compilation of narration-based tafsir ...
...rary appreciation of the Quran. Many later mufassirin, including al-Baghawi and al-Qurtubi, drew heavily from this work.
By Burhan ad-Din al-Marghinani. The most studied and authoritative fiqh manu...
...osition to its evidence. An indispensable text for understanding why scholars differ.
By Ibn Abidin. The definitive reference for fatwa in the Hanafi school, s...
...extremely compressed text, explaining its terminology, providing evidences, and noting the different views within the Malik...
By Jalal ad-Din as-Suyuti. A foundational work on Islamic legal maxims (qaw...
...ative interpretation). The work is significant for understanding the development of Ash'ari theology and its original proxi...
...iefs. The work is an invaluable primary source for understanding the creedal positions of the Salaf on every major theologi...
...ah wal-Jama'ah as understood by the early generations, providing a systematic reference that draws from dozens of classical...
...lier Sirah of Ibn Ishaq, removing unreliable material and adding linguistic and historical notes. This work is the primary ...
...here at-Tabari left off, covering events up to 1231 CE including the devastating Mongol invasions. Ibn al-Athir synthesized...
...udge, combined scholarly precision with elegant prose, providing birth and death dates, lineage, scholarly achievements, an...
...ce, gratitude, fear, hope, love, reliance, etc.) while grounding every concept in Quran and Sunnah. He corrects Sufi excess...
...h al-Maqdisi. An abridgment of Ibn al-Jawzi's Minhaj al-Qasidin, which itself was a purified version of al-Ghazali's Ihya U...
... influenced all later writers on Islamic spirituality, including al-Ghazali, who drew extensively from al-Muhasibi's method...
...r dictionaries, organizing entries by root letters and providing Quranic verses, hadith, poetry, and prose examples for eac...
... the Hanbali perspective on legal theory, particularly regarding the authority of Companion opinions and the scope of istis...
...uyuti covers 80 distinct sciences related to the Quran including its compilation, variant readings, occasions of revelation...
...bligation to love and honor him, and the legal rulings regarding those who disparage him. This work has been continuously s...
...cs. It is the single most comprehensive source for understanding Ibn Taymiyyah's thought and methodology.
...systematic approach makes it uniquely valuable for understanding the logic of Hanafi fiqh.
...ulali. The author's own commentary on his Nur al-Idah, expanding on each ruling with evidence, scholarly reasoning, and pra...
...bringing together the insights of previous exegetes while adding the author's own analysis. Al-Alusi, the Mufti of Baghdad,...
...-Bayhaqi. An encyclopedic collection organizing hadith according to the 'branches of faith,' based on the Prophet's stateme...
...deration in belief,' reflecting al-Ghazali's approach of finding the middle path between excessive rationalism and blind im...
...resents decisive proofs for core theological positions including the existence of God, prophethood, and eschatology. A foun...
...shayri. One of the most influential manuals of Sufism, grounding spiritual practice firmly in orthodox Sunni Islam. Al-Qush...
By Imam al-Ghazali. Al-Ghazali's guide for worshippers, outlining the seven valleys or stages that a servant must traverse on the path to Allah: knowledge, repe
By Imam al-Mawardi. A comprehensive work on the etiquettes of both worldly and religious life. Al-Mawardi discusses the ethics of knowledge-seeking, the duties
By Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi. One of the most important and comprehensive works ...
By Sayf ad-Din al-Amidi. A masterwork of Islamic legal theory that became ...
...ls with sharp logic and vast textual evidence. Essential reading for understanding Islamic legal pluralism.
...he establishment of garrison cities. Essential for understanding early Islamic history.
... the history of nations from creation to his own time, including descriptions of lands, peoples, customs, and scientific kn...
...inistration of justice. An essential reference for understanding the Islamic judicial system.
...connect to broader legal reasoning. A key text for understanding Islamic legal theory in practice.
... hadith narrators. Ibn Hajar condensed the material while adding critical evaluations and additional biographical data not ...
... al-Asqalani. A concise summary of Tahdhib at-Tahdhib, providing the essential biographical data and grading for each narra...
...s work is invaluable for Islamic intellectual history, providing details about the lives, scholarship, and interconnections...
... the Quraysh, the Ansar, and the prominent companions, providing rich historical detail about the formative period of Islam...
By Sa'd ad-Din at-Taftazani. An advanced work on Islamic theology that bec...
By Sa'd ad-Din at-Taftazani. A widely studied commentary on Najm ad-Din an...
By Taj ad-Din as-Subki. The most comprehensive biographical dictionary of...
...vering the lives and works of jurists from the school's founding through the 8th century AH. Al-Qurashi traces the transmis...
... and the work attracted several important commentaries including al-Insaf by al-Mardawi.
By Baha ad-Din al-Maqdisi. A commentary on Umdat al-Fiqh, the beginner-lev...
By Badr ad-Din az-Zarkashi. A comprehensive collection of Islamic legal ma...
...this work introduced new approaches to legal reasoning including early discussions of maqasid (objectives) of Islamic law t...
...h, explaining the principles behind Maliki rulings and providing essential context for understanding the school's methodolo...
By Badr ad-Din al-Ayni. A comprehensive commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari wri...
...ant work on Arabic grammar for Quranic parsing and understanding. Ibn Hisham organizes his discussion of Arabic particles a...
...om other schools, and forms the primary source for understanding Shafi'i methodology firsthand.
...entary, and modern reform movements. Essential for understanding how Islamic law evolved.
...y Imam al-Ghazali. A Persian abridgment of the Ihya Ulum ad-Din, written for a broader audience. Al-Ghazali distills the ke...
...'iyyah) and the methods of determining truth in legal proceedings. Ibn al-Qayyim discusses circumstantial evidence, expert ...
...ddresses the philosophical and theological questions surrounding free will, divine knowledge, and human responsibility, pre...
... brief description. An indispensable reference for understanding the scope of Islamic literary heritage.
...ivinity of Jesus, and the integrity of biblical texts, providing detailed theological arguments from an Islamic perspective...
...important modern work on the objectives of Islamic law, building on ash-Shatibi's foundation. Ibn Ashur argues for making m...
By Fakhr al-Din al-Zayla'i. A detailed commentary on Kanz al-Daqaiq by al-N...
...an al-Jamal. A gloss (hashiyah) on Tafsir al-Jalalayn, providing additional commentary and clarification on the concise Qur...
...presents the Hanbali position alongside other schools, providing evidence-based analysis.
By Shams al-Din al-Ramli. A major commentary on al-Nawawi's Minhaj al-Talib...
By Burhan al-Din al-Marginani. The base text upon which al-Marginani built h...
By Kamal al-Din Ibn al-Humam. A masterful commentary on al-Hidayah, conside...
By Ibn Abidin. The most authoritative late Hanafi legal reference, common...
By Ala' al-Din al-Mardawi. The definitive work for determining the preferr...
By Shams al-Din Ibn Muflih. One of the most comprehensive works in Hanbali ...
...arly Maliki opinions, making it a crucial work for understanding the school's formative period.
By Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi. One of the most comprehensive works of Maliki ju...
By Ala' al-Din al-Kasani. A masterpiece of Hanafi jurisprudence that reorg...
By Badr al-Din al-Ayni. One of the three greatest commentaries on Sahih al...
...ompletion of al-Maziri's al-Mu'allim bi-Fawaid Muslim, providing a comprehensive commentary on Sahih Muslim. Qadi Iyad's wo...
...es clear explanations of hadith texts, discusses variant readings, explains difficult vocabulary, and presents the legal ru...
...mentary on Sunan Abi Dawud. Al-Azimabadi provides hadith grading, explains difficult terms, and discusses the legal implica...
By Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti. Al-Suyuti's commentary on Sunan al-Nasai, also k...
By Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti. Al-Suyuti's commentary on Sunan Ibn Majah, title...
By Jamal al-Din al-Zayla'i. A groundbreaking work of hadith verification fo...
By Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi. The most comprehensive work on hadith narrator bi...
...concise summary of Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, giving a one-line grading for each narrator in the six books. It became the most pra...
...Muhammad. Ibn Hajar catalogues over 12,000 Companions, providing their names, lineages, dates, and notable narrations.
By Izz al-Din Ibn al-Athir. A major biographical dictionary of the Compan...
By Shams al-Din al-Dhahabi. A massive biographical encyclopedia of the most...
...aw (maqasid ash-shari'ah). Ash-Shatibi argues that understanding the higher purposes and intents behind legal rulings is es...
By Jalal ad-Din as-Suyuti. The most comprehensive classical work on the sci...
By Badr ad-Din az-Zarkashi. A pioneering encyclopedic work on the sciences...
...n Khuzaymah was known as 'the Imam of Imams' for his extraordinary command of hadith. Only about a quarter of the original ...
...nes thousands of hadiths, comparing different chains and wordings to expose subtle errors. This work is indispensable for s...
...nes approximately 2,200 narrators who were criticized, providing sample narrations from each to demonstrate the nature of t...
...judgments of his father Abu Hatim, Abu Zur'ah, and other leading hadith critics on thousands of narrators. It is one of the...
By Shams ad-Din adh-Dhahabi. A biographical dictionary of the greatest hadi...
By Shams ad-Din adh-Dhahabi. A comprehensive biographical dictionary of had...
By Ala ad-Din al-Kasani. A major Hanafi fiqh work renowned for its excell...
By Burhan ad-Din al-Marghinani. The most studied Hanafi fiqh text in the Ind...
By Zayn ad-Din ibn Nujaym. An important Hanafi fiqh commentary on Kanz ad-...
By Muhammad Amin ibn Abidin. The definitive reference for Hanafi fatwa in the later per...
By Shams ad-Din ar-Ramli. One of the two supreme references of later Shafi'...
By Ala ad-Din al-Mardawi. The most important work for determining the rel...
By Zayn ad-Din al-Iraqi. A comprehensive hadith verification (takhrij) of ...
By Jalal ad-Din as-Suyuti. A systematic collection of Shafi'i legal maxims ...
By Zayn ad-Din ibn Nujaym. The Hanafi counterpart to as-Suyuti's work on l...
By Izz ad-Din ibn al-Athir. A comprehensive universal history from the be...
By Taj ad-Din as-Subki. The most comprehensive biographical dictionary of...
...d the early scholars. This work is significant for understanding al-Ash'ari's final theological positions and is cited by b...
By Abu al-Mu'in an-Nasafi. The most comprehensive work of Maturidi theology, systematically presenting the theological positions of the Maturidi school with det
By Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi. A comprehensive and philosophically sophisticated ...
By Sayf ad-Din al-Amidi. One of the four foundational works of usul al-fiq...
By Taj ad-Din as-Subki. A concise and authoritative summary of usul al-fi...
By Ala ad-Din al-Bukhari. The most comprehensive commentary on Fakhr al-I...
By Majd ad-Din ibn Taymiyyah. An important Hanbali fiqh manual by the gran...
By Shams ad-Din ibn Muflih. A comprehensive Hanbali fiqh work that systemat...
By Muwaffaq ad-Din ibn Qudamah. A concise yet comprehensive Hanbali fiqh manua...
By Zayn ad-Din al-Malibari. An important Shafi'i fiqh text widely studied ...
By Shams ad-Din al-Khatib ash-Shirbini. An important Shafi'i fiqh commentar...
...ifically on the Maliki school's positions as practiced in Medina. It is valued for combining legal rulings with their hadit...
By Shihab ad-Din al-Qarafi. A major Maliki fiqh encyclopedia by one of the g...
By Shihab ad-Din al-Qarafi. A groundbreaking work that identifies 548 distin...
By Shams ad-Din adh-Dhahabi. A masterful biographical encyclopedia covering...
By Izz ad-Din ibn al-Athir. A major biographical dictionary of the Compan...
...h al-Maqdisi. An abridgment of Ibn al-Jawzi's Minhaj al-Qasidin, a Hanbali-friendly version of al-Ghazali's Ihya.
...ah. A classical treatise on the Islamic obligation of commanding good and prohibiting evil, its conditions, levels, and rul...
... detailed study of Islamic eschatology of the Last Day including resurrection, the great gathering, intercession, and the s...
By Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani. A meticulous reconstruction of the Prophet's pra...
...e on the rulings pertaining to menstruation, post-natal bleeding, and irregular bleeding with scholarly analysis of evidenc...
By Muhammad Taqi Usmani. Establishes the binding authority of prophetic hadith in Islamic law, responding t...
...s covering revelation, preservation, collection, variant readings, and interpretation principles for English-speaking stude...
... of sixteen remarkable women companions of the Prophet including Khadijah, Aisha, and Fatimah, highlighting their scholarsh...
By Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani. A detailed fiqh study of the Friday prayer cover...
By Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani. A scholarly examination of Islamic evidences on ...
...phy of Ibn Taymiyyah's foremost student, tracing his extraordinary scholarly output across fiqh, hadith, tafsir, and spirit...
...uring their transformative encounters with Islam and extraordinary achievements.
...le simplified Quran commentary in contemporary English providing clear explanations of each surah's themes and key concepts...
...al examination of the historical and Biblical evidence regarding the crucifixion of Jesus, presenting the Islamic position ...
.... A detailed jurisprudential guide to pilgrimage rites according to the Hanafi school, covering pillars, obligations, recom...
By Badruddin Ahmad. A comprehensive study of Islamic belief in the herea...
...interpretation establishing Islamic principles for understanding true dreams and distinguishing them from false visions.
...dhami. A classical collection of hadith on the merits of sending salawat upon the Prophet Muhammad, the correct formulas, a...
...uettes of reciting, memorizing, and handling the Quran according to the Sunnah.
By Imam al-Nawawi. Imam al-Nawawi on the proper use of speech, the dangers of the tongue, and Islamic etiquette of conversation.
...A comprehensive guide to Islamic rulings and practices regarding death, dying, and burial.
...etailed rulings on the ritual sacrifice of Eid al-Adha according to the Sunnah.
.... Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi. A comprehensive biography of Saladin, the great Muslim military leader who liberated Jerusalem i...
... to Imam Abu Hanifa. Covers the fundamentals of belief including divine attributes, prophethood, and human agency.
...hmiyyah sect. A critical early Athari theological text defending orthodox positions on Allah's attributes and the creation ...
...n important reference for identifying scholars and understanding terminology.
... theology, focusing on the correct methodology for understanding divine attributes. Named after the city of Tadmur where it...
... and methodological defence of the Sunnah as a source of binding religious knowledge. Ja'far Sheikh Idris engages orientali...
...jority environments should engage their intellectual surroundings without assimilation or irrelevant isolation — arguing fo...
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